linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] tpm: dynamically allocate the allocated

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:01:22 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...wei.com>
Cc:     zohar@...ux.ibm.com, david.safford@...com, monty.wiseman@...com,
        matthewgarrett@...gle.com, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        silviu.vlasceanu@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] tpm: dynamically allocate the allocated_banks
 array

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:52:40AM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> On 1/29/2019 8:29 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:49:04PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > +	chip->allocated_banks = kcalloc(1, sizeof(*chip->allocated_banks),
> > > +					GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +	if (!chip->allocated_banks) {
> > > +		rc = -ENOMEM;
> > > +		goto out;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	chip->allocated_banks[0] = TPM2_ALG_SHA1;
> > > +	chip->nr_allocated_banks = 1;
> > 
> > Everything else looks nice in this patch except this.
> > 
> > You always branch for TPM 1.2, and it will always have just SHA1. This
> > is unnecessary.
> 
> Without this, users of the TPM driver have to call tpm_is_tpm2() first,
> while instead they can look directly at chip->allocated_banks.

I realized this after going through the whole patch set and sleeping
one night :-) You can keep it. I was mistaken here.

/Jarkko